HOLLYWOOD SPY EXCLUSIVE SPOTLIGHT ON NEW CBS SCIENCE FICTION SHOW "UNDER THE DOME" BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S NOVEL WITH MIKE VOGEL, RACHELLE LEFEVRE & JEFF FAHEY

Most of your favourite shows are currently having season finales and it means the summer with nothing interesting on TV is around the corner. But do not despair, beside new epic show THE WHITE QUEEN which hits BBC this June and Starz in August, you will also watch brand new science fiction mystery show UNDER THE DOME over at CBS. Based on Stephen King's book, the new show should start its 13 episode run from Monday June 24th!

  THE DOME STORY

FAITH, FEAR & FASCISM

Set in the not too distant future, UNDER THE DOME tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, who suddenly find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious, impenetrable barrier that unexpectedly falls down from nowhere surrounding the town. As the town begins to tear itself apart through panic, a small group of people attempt to maintain peace and order while also trying to uncover the truth behind the barrier and how to  escape from it. Faced with the new situation, the people of Chester's Mill will first experience faith, then fear and then fascism since everything will go wrong under the dome and they will need an iron fist to bring them order!

  THE DOME CAST

MIKE VOGEL & RACHELLE LEFEVRE

Mike Vogel plays Dale "Barbie" Barbara, an Army veteran in town on a mysterious mission. Rachelle Lefevre is Julia, an investigative reporter who takes an interest in Barbie. Colin Ford is Joe, a smart teenager whose parents are trapped outside the barrier. Natalie Martinez is Deputy Linda, a loyal and ambitious sheriff's deputy. Ned Bellamy is Rev. Lester Coggins. Dean Norris is James "Big Jim" Rennie, politician and owner of Jim Rennie's Used Cars, who seeks to use the dome as a way to gain control of Chester's Mill. Alexander  Koch is Junior Rennie, Big Jim's emotionally disturbed son. Britt Robertson is Angie McAlister, an aspiring nurse with dreams of escaping the town. Nicholas Strong is Phil, a popular radio DJ with a dark secret. Jolene Purdy is Dodee, a radio engineer who makes contact with the outside world. Aisha Hinds is Carolyn Hill, a Los Angeles entertainment attorney who is trapped in the town with her partner and teenage daughter. Jeff Fahey is Howard "Duke" Perkins, chief of the police department.

JENNIFER ANISTON STRIPS IN NEW "WE'RE THE MILLERS" TRAILER WITH JASON SUDEIKIS! BIDDING WAR IN CANNES FOR JUDI DENCH'S DRAMA "PHILOMENA"! "THE DROWNED WORLD" SF MOVIE ADAPTATION

  JUDI DENCH'S NEW DRAMA

 PHILOMENA RAISES BIDDING WAR

In news from Cannes, in a huge bidding war for the distribution rights on Judi Dench's new drama PHILOMENA, The Weinstein Company won and will probably release the film this Fall. A few days ago a seven minute teaser was shown to potential buyers who were all left stunned and jaw-opened and this started a heated bid. The future film award contender directed by Stephen Frears (THE QUEEN, MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS) brings true story of an Irish woman whose son was sold for adoption in America, and their attempts to reunite with each other. It's a movie adaptation of Martin Sixsmith's book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search", which describes how PHILOMENA was forced by nuns to give up her son Anthony when he was 3. Anthony was sold for adoption in America, where he grew up to be a successful lawyer and politician. In the 1980s, after he contracted AIDS, he visited Ireland in an attempt to find his mother.

  DROWNED WORLD FILM

  ON J.G. BALLARD'S NOVEL

Warner Bros. has apparently bought the movie adaptation rights for J.G. Ballard's novel THE DROWNED WORLD with HARRY PLOPPER producers set to produce. Written fifty years ago the story was set in 2145 imagining a terrifying world in which solar radiation has melted the ice caps. Jungles have overrun continental Europe, and London is for the most part left submerged under water. The protagonist is a biologist who lives on the 35th floor of a high-rise, where only two floors sit above the water line. He battles a savage environment, and primordial creatures that prowl the undergrowth and also some evil anarchists who rule the city and terrorize its inhabitants. Steven Spielberg previously adapted Ballard's EMPIRE OF THE SUN into an award winning drama.

  WE'RE THE MILLERS TRAILER

 JASON SUDEIKIS & JENNIFER ANISTON COMEDY

Here are two adorable people - Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston - in a very strange movie - WE'RE THE MILLERS! A new trailer has just been released for this comedy which will premiere in cinemas this August with always delightful Sudeikis playing a veteran pot dealer who creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico. Jennifer Aniston plays his fake wife while Emma Roberts and Will Poulter play their fake teenage children who all go on this hilarious gig together. My boys should know that the trailer contains a hot stripping scene with Aniston :)

AMY ADAMS, OLIVIA WILDE, SCARLET JOHANSSON, CHRIS PRATT, JOAQUIN PHOENIX IN "HER"! "SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL" & "RED QUEEN" FANTASY ADAPTATIONS! SANDRA BULLOCK & MELISSA MCCARTHY "HEAT" 2ND TRAILER

  SF FILM 'HER' WITH

SCARLETT JOHANSSON, OLIVIA WILDE, AMY ADAMS, JOAQUIN PHOENIX

Now, this is certainly a star studded cast: ready to premiere this Autumn in Europe is new comedy movie HER  from Spike Jonze which also has science fiction elements! Joaquin Phoenix takes the lead role of a lonely writer, from a not so distant future, who develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need. He apparently falls in love with HER voice. The cast has just added Scarlett Johansson and Chris Pratt, and it already included Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Samantha Morton, Olivia Wilde...  Speaking of Scarlett Johansson she is to appear in both CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 WINTER SOLDIER and AVENGERS 2 as the Black Widow and later this year she should star in UNDER THE SKIN as an extremely sexy alien in curvaceous human form who is having sexy adventures in Scotland. Yes, you read it right.

  FANTASY ADAPTATION OF

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL
In today's fantasy news, first "Deadline" reports that upcoming fantasy saga THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL by Soman Chainani has been sold for movie adaptation! To be published this month by Harper Collins it tells the story of ordinary boys and girls who are kidnapped from their homes and sent to The School for Good and Evil, where they are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains, princesses and witches. The protagonist is Sophie, a beauty who is dumped into the School for Evil while her homely best friend Agatha is taken to the School for Good. Both girls find their fortunes reversed and are forced to confront the truth about their unexpected destinies.

  VICTORIA AVEYARD'S

RED QUEEN
Meanwhile, Universal has grabbed the movie rights for Victoria Aveyard's fantasy novel RED QUEEN  set in a fantasy world where society is divided by the color of blood. It features a 17 year old girl who, to save her family, must assume the role of a long-lost princess while secretly aiding a revolution; her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince and her against her own heart. 22 year old Aveyard recently got a shocking mid six figure deal from Harper Collins for the book scheduled for 2015!

  SECOND 'THE HEAT' TRAILER

 SANDRA BULLOCK & MELISSA MCCARTHY

Your trailer for today is the second one for this summer's comedy THE HEAT which puts together Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as two unlikely police partners! Hitting cinemas this July, the hilarious comedy will see Sandra Bullock playing uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn who is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins, played by McCarthy, in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner - or a friend for that matter. The cast also includes Marlon Wayans, Michael Rapaport and Demian Bichir.

KATE HUDSON JOINS ZACH BRAFF IN "WISH I WAS HERE" COMEDY! MIA MAESTRO & COREY STOLL IN GUILERMO DEL TORO'S "THE STRAIN" SF SHOW! "AS COOL AS I AM" TRAILER WITH JAMES MARSDEN, SARAH BOLGER, CLAIRE DANES

  KATE HUDSON JOINS

WISH I WAS HERE 

Here's an interesting couple: Kate Hudson has joined Zach Braff in his WISH I WAS HERE project for which he is trying to collect enough money at Kickstarter! The two of them will play a married couple in a story about Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor who can't quite provide for his family. When his father (Mandy Patinkin) becomes ill, he reluctantly agrees to home-school his father's young children, which forces him to learn a lot about himself in the process. Jim Parsons, Anna Kendrick and Donald Faison are also in the cast.

  GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S

THE STRAIN SF SHOW 

Deadline reports that FX has found lead actors for their new high concept action thriller science fiction 13 episode show THE STRAIN. Mia Maestro and Corey Stoll will star in Guillermo del Toro's story  about Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Stoll), the head of the Centres for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. Mia Maestro plays Dr. Nora Martinez, who works so closely with Ephraim, they finish each other’s sentences and stumble into an affair. A brilliant biochemist, Martinez cares more about people than the diseases that threaten them, but she will soon be forced to embrace a new identity as a ruthless warrior.

  'AS COOL AS I AM' TRAILER

 JAMES MARSDEN, SARAH BOLGER, CLAIRE DANES

It's been a poor day in movie business, so the only trailer I have for you today is for indie drama AS COOL AS I AM with the cast which includes brilliant James Marsden, gorgeous Sarah Bolger from THE TUDORS and ONCE UPON A TIME, and Claire Danes. Ready to start its theatre life this June, the drama follows a  smart teenage girl (Bolger) who comes of age in a small town with her self-centred parents who had her when they were teenagers. So, as you can see from the trailer it's a typical drama about bad parents who are raised by their own kids.

ANTONIO BANDERAS & RODRIGO SANTORO ARE CHILEAN MINERS IN "THE 33"! DEV PATEL IN "THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY"! SAM CLAFLIN, DOUGLAS BOOTH IN "POSH"! "TOMORROW PEOPLE" SF SHOW TRAILER! "ALI & NINO" EXOTIC EPIC

  BANDERAS & SANTORO

ARE CHILEAN MINERS IN "THE 33"

According to "Deadline" Antonio Banderas is ready to take the lead role in THE 33, a movie dramatization of the tragic events in 2010 when the miners in Chile got caved in. Rescuers were working hard to save them during 69 days that the miners spent entrapped! The cast also includes Rodrigo Santoro, whom we shall watch again as Persian emperor Xerxes in 300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE, and Martin Sheen! Banderas will play the leader of the miners.

  DEV PATEL IN

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY 

When it comes to period pieces, according to "The Hollywood Reporter", everybody's fave Indian actor Dev Patel, who delighted us in THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, will play the lead role in THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, about the life of Indian genius Ramanujan, famed mathematician who worked in isolation in Edwardian India before joining the wider mathematics community in Cambridge.

  SAM CLAFLIN & DOUGLAS BOOTH

ARE 'POSH'   
In a less serious movie, three young superhunks Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth and Max Irons will star together in the movie adaptation of theatre play POSH which follows two first-year students at Oxford University who join the infamous Riot Club  of privileged students, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.

  ALI AND NINO

  EXOTIC WW1 EPIC

In epic news today: Deadline reports that ATONEMENT scribe Christopher Hampton is adapting epic WW1 love story based on Kurban Said's classic novel ALI AND NINO. The story is set in Azerbaijan where Ali Khan Shirvanshir, the male descendant of a royal Muslim family, falls in love with Nino Kipiani, a beautiful, Christian, Georgian princess.

  THE TOMORROW PEOPLE

 NEW SF SHOW TRAILER

After yesterday's trailers for new sf shows THE 100 and STAR CROSSED, here's a trailer for third new sf show to air at CW this Autumn: TOMORROW PEOPLE - the next evolutionary leap of mankind, a generation of humans born with paranormal abilities. Stephen Jameson stands at the crossroads between the world we  know and the shifting world of the future. Up until a year ago, Stephen was a “normal” teenager — until he began hearing voices and teleporting in his sleep, never knowing where he might wake up. Now, Stephen’s issues have gone far beyond the usual teenage angst, and he is beginning   to question his sanity. In desperation, Stephen decides to listen to one of the voices in his head, and it leads him to his first encounter with the Tomorrow People — John, Cara and Russell — a genetically advanced race with the abilities of telekinesis, teleportation and telepathic communication.

GERARD BUTLER IN SF ACTION "THE RAVEN"! TRAILERS FOR NEW SF SHOWS "THE 100" WITH ELIZA TAYLOR, ELI GOREE AND "STAR CROSSED" WITH MATT LANTER & AIMEE TEEGARDEN!

  GERARD BUTLER

IN 'THE RAVEN' SF MOVIE

Did you notice that robotic cops are currently trendy in Tinseltown? Beside ROBOCOP remake coming soon with Joel Kinnaman and the new J.J.Abrams sf show ALMOST HUMAN with Karl Urban, we shall also see futuristic cops in THE RAVEN! Universal is apparently negotiating with Scottish hunkster Gerard Butler to take the lead role, which was previously meant for Liam Hemsworth, in this story which revolves around a man with incredible super-human talents, who is on the run from robotic cop drones in downtown Los Angeles, while a police ship hovers the skies, coordinating the chase. Wait, didn't Butler did something similar in GAME? Gerard also has HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON sequel in the future!

  'THE 100' SF SHOW

 APOCALYPTIC TEENS

When it comes to clips, HOLLYWOOD SPY is bringing you trailers for two new science fiction shows coming to CW this Autumn. The first one is for THE 100! Set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civi- lization, the show follows a spaceship housing the lone human survivors which sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. Eliza Taylor, Eli Goree, Kelly Hu, Christopher Larkin, Isaiah Washington lead the cast! 

  STAR CROSSED SF SHOW

 ALIEN & HUMAN LOVE STORY

The second trailer is for a more romantic type of sf show! Previously called OXYGEN and now retitled into STAR CROSSED,  it will be a kind of a futuristic Romeo and Juliet with Matt Lanter and Aimee Teegarden portraying a pair of "star-crossed" lovers - one human, one alien - who go to a high school together. Ten years after aliens Atrians had crashed on Earth and warred with humans they've acclimatized themselves to Earth and now some of the young aliens are sent to a human high school to test the feasibility of their integration. The eyes of the nation and the whole world are fixed on this historical social experiment, an endeavour fraught with suspicion and fear.

EMILY BLUNT TO JOIN MERYL STREEP, JOHNNY DEPP IN "INTO THE WOODS"? PIERCE BROSNAN IN "NOVEMBER MAN" WITH OLGA KURYLENKO & "HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN ENGLISHMAN" WITH JESSICA ALBA! "YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET" TRAILER WITH HELENA BONHAM CARTER

  INTO THE WOODS

EMILY BLUNT JOINS MERYL STREEP & JOHNNY DEPP?

Oooh, we certainly do like how the cast for new musical film INTO THE WOODS, which is to be directed by Rob Marshall, is shaping up: only a few days ago I informed you that Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal are to join Meryl Streep (a witch) and Johnny Depp (a wolf) in the cast as Cinderella's and Rapunzel's princes, and now divine British rose Emily Blunt is negotiating to take the role of baker's wife. The plot follows a baker who, together with his wife, ventures into a forest in order to lift a curse that an evil witch has  put upon him, and there in the woods they meet all kinds of fairy tale characters. The lead male role is yet to be cast, but Christine Baranski is also in as Cinderella's mean-spirited stepmother.

 PIERCE BROSNAN

  WITH OLGA KURYLENKO IN "NOVEMBER MAN" 
Ready to shoot soon over in Belgrade, Serbia, is new action film NOVEMBER MAN which will be based on a Bill Granger novel, and will see Pierce Brosnan playing an ex-CIA agent who goes up against his former protege (Luke Bracey) in a race against time to find a woman (Olga Kurylenko) who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. According to rumours Dominic Cooper might join them as well!
IN "HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN ENGLISH MAN"
Speaking of Pierce Brosnan he will also star in HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN ENGLISHMAN playing a Cambridge University professor who is forced to reexamine his hedonistic lifestyle after meeting a great gal (Kristin Scott Thomas). Things get complicated when he impregnates her grad student stepsister (Jessica Alba).

  YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET

TRAILER WITH HELENA BONHAM CARTER & KYLE CATLETT

You know how your trusted HOLLYWOOD SPY has a soft spot in his heart for delightful and heart warming flicks? Here is one of that kind: THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET a charming new movie from the brilliant directer Jean Pierre Jeunet (AMELIE, DELICATESSEN, THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN) in which the story revolves around a 12-year-old cartographer who secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute. Adorable little Kyle Catlett leads the cast which also includes Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Robert Maillet and Niamh Wilson! The $33 million movie is scheduled to open in European cinemas this Autumn!

SPOTLIGHT ON DELIGHTFUL NEW ANIMATED FILM "KHUMBA" FROM TRIGGERFISH STUDIOS WITH LIAM NEESON, LAURENCE FISHBURNE, STEVE BUSCEMI! PLUS HOLLYWOOD SPY EXCLUSIVE TALK WITH 'KHUMBA' DIRECTOR ANTHONY SILVERSTON!

It’s not all black and white for this zebra… he’s going to have to earn his stripes! Now, tell me that isn't just about the cutest line for an animated character! The amazing and deeply creative guys from Triggerfish, the brilliant masterminds of animation from the studio also known as South African Pixar, are ready to bring us another animated adventure after the brilliant success they've scored with their previous film ZAMBEZIA (the highest grossing South African film in last 30 years) which followed a delightful bunch of African birds. This time the talented Triggerfish team is bringing us KHUMBA a half-striped zebra who, rejected by his superstitious herd, embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes; but when he discovers a tyrannical leopard on his trail, he must find the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo. 

  THE STORY OF KHUMBA

A ZEBRA ADVENTURE

A half-striped zebra is born into an insular, isolated herd obsessed with stripes. Rumours that the strange foal is cursed spread and, before long, he is blamed for the drought that sets into the Great Karoo. Life is not all black and white for Khumba, a young zebra born with only half his stripes so he teams up with a sassy wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich to find the legendary waterhole where the first zebras got their stripes. On his daring quest across the Great Karoo desert, Khumba meets a host of quirky characters and comes face-to-face with a tyrannical leopard in an epic battle to earn his stripes. 
   

  THE CAST OF KHUMBA

LIAM NEESON & LAURENCE FISHBURNE

Directed by brilliant Anthony Silverston, whom we know as the man who wrote and produced Triggerfish's ZAMBEZIA, animated adventure KHUMBA has quite a stellar voice cast. Included in the star studded gallery are Liam Neeson as the villainous leopard Phango,  Anna Sophia Robb as Tombi Khumba's female friend, Steve Buscemi as colourful vagabond Skalk, Laurence Fishburne as Seko Khumba's father, British comedian Catherine Tate as Nora, Richard  E. Grant as the charming ostrich, Loretta Devine as Mama V, and Disney Channel's superstar Jake T. Austin who lends his voice to the title character, the brave zebra! The $20 million film is being presented

at Cannes and will hit the big screens around the world later during the year.

  EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH

 ANTHONY SILVERSTON THE 'KHUMBA' DIRECTOR

Before he flew over to Cannes earlier this week, talented director and an ever so kind and deeply charming gent, Anthony Silverston shared a chat with your HOLLYWOOD SPY.

  DEZZ: ANTHONY, TELL US WHERE DID YOU FIND THE IDEA FOR KHUMBA.

ANTHONY: The project begun at a script competition which we won,  and then we continued working on it off and on while working on ZAMBEZIA. Pre-production started end of October 2009 and I haven't stopped since. The inspiration

for the story came from a combination of places, one being the fact there is actually a half-striped zebra known as a Quagga and it is being bred back from extinction in Cape Town. Maybe it was the scientist in me, but the idea fascinated me. It raised a theme of identity - what makes a zebra a zebra? Or as one character in the movie asks, how many stripes make a zebra? I think anyone can relate to a feeling of being different or at least wanting to fit in. There are many themes which the film touches on – all inspired by growing up in South Africa, but ultimately it’s a personal journey about learning to be comfortable in one’s own skin.

  DEZZ: THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOVELY MESSAGE FOR THE VIEWERS OF THE FILM. WAS IT DIFFICULT MAKING THE FILM?

ANTHONY:  Being a quest movie, there were many different sets and with over 40 characters (17 different species) so it was quite a challenge, but it's been an incredible journey of growth making this film and the talented team at Triggerfish all stepped up and surpassed their work on Zambezia.

DEZZ: I HEAR YOU ARE WORKING ON SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING AS A NEW PROJECT, ANTHONY! CAN YOU GIVE SOME SCOOP TO THE SPY?

ANTHONY: We are exploring a number of options for our next feature including a sequel for Zambezia, but we have also been

developing our most ambitious story yet! It is set in a fishing village on the coast of Southern Africa and it features a sea monster.

  DEZZ: THAT SOUNDS INTRIGUING, ANTHONY! THANKS FOR THE INTERVIEW AND BEST OF LUCK WITH ALL OF THE AMAZING PROJECTS DOWN AT THE TRIGGERFISH WONDERLAND! 

MADLY HILARIOUS "RIO 2" TEASER! "ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND" FANTASY TRAILER! AMANDA SEYFRIED, CHRIS PINE IN "Z FOR ZACHARIAH" SF FILM

  Z FOR ZACHARIAH SF

 AMANDA SEYFRIED & CHRIS PINE

And I've mentioned Chris Pine only yesterday, but he already has yet another new project: according to "The Hollywood Reporter" he, Amanda Seyfried and Chiwetel Ejiofor have joined science fiction movie Z FOR ZACHARIAH! Produced by Tobey Maguire and based upon the classic sci-fi novel by Robert C. O'Brien, the psychological thriller follows a teenage girl (Amanda Seyfried), who seems to be the only one left alive after a devastating apocalyptic event. Eventually a scientist (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds her on the farm she is living on and they end up falling in love. Chris Pine will play another young survivor, whose appearance in the story makes things between the new couple complicated.

  UTTERLY HILARIOUS

 'RIO 2' TEASER!

First trailer for today is unbearably cute and madly hilarious teaser for the animated sequel RIO 2! You can see birds dancing wildly to the Brazilian rhythm in the teaser. The original film earned almost half billion dollars around the world!  RIO 2 sees Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway) raising a happy family of baby birds, whose lives are turned upside down when they venture into the Amazon.The voice cast also includes George Lopez, Bruno Mars and Will I Am! I just about died watching the very end of the teaser :)

  FANTASY TRAILER FOR

 ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND

Your second trailer for today is the first one for ABC's new fantasy series ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND which is the spinoff to their already popular show ONCE UPON A TIME. The shows will share the same universe, but WONDERLAND will focus on romance and will have Alice as the main character. Airing on Thursdays from this Autumn, the show will have Sophie Lowe playing Alice, with Being Human's Michael Socha appearing as the charming Knave of Hearts and Peter Gadiot as the handsome and mysterious Cyrus. Emma Rigby will play the role of the Red Queen, with '3rd Rock from the Sun' John Lithgow lending his voice to the White Rabbit.

BREAKING NEWS: FIRST TRAILER FOR CW'S NEW HISTORICAL SAGA "REIGN" ON MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS WITH ADELAIDE KANE, TOBY REGBO, TORRANCE COOMBS, ANNA POPPLEWELL

In breaking news today we have the first trailer for new historical series REIGN which will air this Autumn at CW! Starring Adelaide Kane in the lead role the show will depict the life of Mary Queen of Scots from the moment when she arrives to the French court as the prince's fiancee, where she must

combat dangerous foes in order to survive.

  THE STORY OF REIGN

 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

Hidden between the lines of the history books is the story of Mary Stuart, the young woman the world would come to know as Mary, Queen of Scots. Queen of Scotland since she was six days old, the teenage Mary is already a headstrong monarch - beautiful, passionate, and poised at the very beginning of her tumultuous rise to power. Arriving in France with four close friends as her ladies-in-waiting, Mary has been sent to secure Scotland’s strategic alliance by formalizing her arranged engagement to the French king’s dashing son, Prince Francis. But the match isn’t signed and sealed, it depends more on politics, religion and secret agendas than affairs of the heart. Prince Francis is intrigued by the fiery Scot, but like most young men, he resists the idea of settling down into marriage, especially when he has a history with a lady of the court and his own point of view on the wisdom of an alliance with Scotland. Still, an attraction between Mary and Francis is ignited. Further complicating things is Bash, Francis’ roguish half-brother, who has a history of his own - despite his illegitimate birth, Bash is his father’s favorite. And now that Bash has caught Mary’s eye, a royal triangle may be forming. While at French Court, fierce foes and dark forces conspire to sabotage Mary’s marriage to Francis and even threaten her life, until a mysterious shrouded guide becomes her ally. With danger and sexual intrigue around every dark castle corner, Mary rallies her ladies-in-waiting and steels herself, ready to rule the new land and balance the demands of her country and her heart.

  THE CAST OF 'REIGN'

Dashing Toby Regbo plays prince Francis, while Megan Follows (WORLD WITHOUT END) play Queen Catherine de Medici, the Queen Consort of France, who is willing to do anything to mantain her own standing and power at Court, as well as that of her children. The show also has Caitlin Stasey playing Kenna, a free spirit who serves as one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting together with Celina Sinden who will play Greer. Torrance Coombs will play Sebastian, Francis’ resourceful illegitimate half brother, a favorite son of King Henry II (Alan Van Sprang). It is also interesting that one of Mary's ladies in waiting will be portrayed by Anna Popplewell, the little girl from NARNIA saga! She will play Mary's lady Lola! Rossif Sutherland plays famous Nostradamus, queen's wizard prophet!